I have to-day received the following message from the President
for transmission to you.

BEGINS:

Dear Mr. Curtin,

Your message informing me of Dr. Evatt's visit to Washington is
received [1] and I shall be very glad to see him again as soon as
he gets here. [2] It is regretted that an immediate necessity for
the provision of forces, aeroplanes and other military equipment
in other theatres of war, together with an acute shortage of
transportation facilities, makes it impossible to accomplish at
the present time any increase in troops or aeroplanes in addition
to those now allocated to the South-West Pacific. I suppose that
you have full information in regard to the latest increases. [3]
It is my opinion that, with the additional troops and planes now
en route from America to the South-West Pacific, it should be
possible, by a determined aggressive use of all available
Australian and American forces against the Japanese in those areas
which they now occupy in the South-West Pacific, to preclude any
serious attack on the continent of Australia. [4]

Franklin D. Roosevelt

ENDS.